On Monday, Reynold Pratt's attempts to chat up the man sitting next to him at the bar in B-Dubs' West St. Paul location were rebuffed, and if law enforcement's account of what happened can be believed, Pratt was murderously unhappy about it.

After Pratt's would-be interlocutor told him he was "chilling" with his co-workers and had no interest in conversing with him, Pratt, a 40-year-old South St. Paul resident, allegedly went into full-fledged racist mode and insulted the man with a string of racial slurs.

The man then "got in Pratt's face and told him to stop disrespecting him," the criminal complaint says, according to a Pioneer Press report. But instead of backing down, the surveillance footage shows Pratt, knife in hand, walking toward the man.

The man and his friends left, and police were called to the scene. They found Pratt still sitting at the bar with his knife and a beer next to him.

"Am I in trouble since I pulled a knife on that guy?" he asked officers, the PiPress reports.

The answer to his question was yes. Pratt's been charged with a felony count of making terroristic threats. He's currently free after posting $5,000 bail.

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@Ross Levine I think that it actually has more to with the suburban vs. urban mentalities than it does with Minnesota.

I've heard several bartenders comment on this phenomenon over the years. In the suburbs, it is generally not considered 'okay' to converse with strangers at a bar. You are only supposed to associate with the group that you came in with, basically. There's no written policy, obviously, but this is just the suburban culture.

On the other hand, the guy who comes in to an urban bar and refuses to speak to strangers is considered a bit odd. People socialise differently in urban areas. This doesn't justify pulling a knife on someone, but it does kind of explain why someone in a suburban bar could get offended by a stranger striking up a conversation. That's what really provoked this incident.